Drawing For Emotional Expression
A set of therapeutic art practices where simple drawing exercises become a way to release emotion, reduce stress, and connect with the deeper parts of yourself.
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Introduction
This short audio introduction will help you get started. As you listen, gather the art supplies you have on hand and take a moment to settle in.
This short audio introduction will help you get started. As you listen, gather the art supplies you have on hand and take a moment to settle in.
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Lesson 1: Cultivating Your Inner Garden
Today, you’ll imagine and draw a garden that visually represents your inner world. This exercise invites you to reflect on your strengths, goals, challenges, and the supportive elements that help you grow.
Today, you’ll imagine and draw a garden that visually represents your inner world. This exercise invites you to reflect on your strengths, goals, challenges, and the supportive elements that help you grow.
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Lesson 2: Emotional Awareness and Healing
Today, you’ll explore the emotions held in your heart while identifying tools for self-compassion and restoration. This exercise invites you to visually represent and process your feelings in a safe, creative way.
Today, you’ll explore the emotions held in your heart while identifying tools for self-compassion and restoration. This exercise invites you to visually represent and process your feelings in a safe, creative way.
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Lesson 3: Building Connections To Your Goals
Today, you’ll explore your journey toward a goal you're working on. You’ll reflect and visually represent where you’ve been, where you're heading, and the challenges along the way, gaining clarity and inspiration to move forward.
Today, you’ll explore your journey toward a goal you're working on. You’ll reflect and visually represent where you’ve been, where you're heading, and the challenges along the way, gaining clarity and inspiration to move forward.
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Lesson 4: Claiming Your Space
Today, you’ll create a visual representation of the healthy limits that protect your energy and well-being. It’s a powerful step in understanding and expressing your needs in new ways.
Today, you’ll create a visual representation of the healthy limits that protect your energy and well-being. It’s a powerful step in understanding and expressing your needs in new ways.
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Lesson 5: Mapping Stress In The Body
Today, we’ll tune into your body, identify areas of tension, and explore ways to visualize and release stress. You’ll gain a deeper understanding of how stress affects you physically and develop a creative tool to help reduce it.
Today, we’ll tune into your body, identify areas of tension, and explore ways to visualize and release stress. You’ll gain a deeper understanding of how stress affects you physically and develop a creative tool to help reduce it.
Sometimes words aren’t enough to express how we feel.
Drawing for Emotional Expression introduces simple therapeutic art practices that use creativity as a language that helps you process emotions, release stress, and reconnect with yourself in meaningful ways.
Across five guided lessons, you’ll explore how to give form to your inner landscape, transform difficult feelings into images you can work with, and discover themes that support resilience and clarity. Each exercise combines drawing with reflection, offering a gentle yet powerful way to engage with your emotions and your imagination.
You don’t need to be an artist to take this course, just curiosity, a pen or pencil, and paper. By the end, you’ll have practical tools you can return to whenever you need grounding, perspective, or a renewed sense of connection with yourself.